Expandable intraluminal graft,and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft

ABSTRACT

An expandable intraluminal vascular graft is expanded within a blood vessel by an angioplasty balloon associated with a catheter to dilate and expand the lumen of a blood vessel. The graft may be a wire mesh tube or a thin-walled tubular member having a plurality of openings formed therein.



